關東地震 guān dōng dì zhèn

DEFINITIONS

  1. Kantō earthquake of 1923, magnitude 8.2, that killed 200,000 people in the Tokyo area

CHARACTERS

關 guān frontier pass; close; relation
東 dōng east, eastern, eastward
地 dì
HSK 3
earth; soil, ground; region
震 zhèn
HSK 5
shake, quake, tremor; excite